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The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.

Charles de Gaulle

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Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Choice Hard Inspirational Opponent Path Rival Way Yourself
When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
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Angry Myself Right Time Wrong
The future does not belong to men.
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Future Man One Liner
I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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Belong Deep Man Myself
Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished. Tomorrow, as today, I will speak on Radio London.
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Day Flame Myself Resistance Talk
A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
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Breathe Element Excitement Leadership Public Surprise True
When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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Myself Thinking
For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
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Faith France Guide Rule
Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
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Enjoyment Equality Himself Passion Privilege
There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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Breed Familiar Mystery Pride
A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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Alone Country Friendship Greatness Name Worth
Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life.
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Digestion Influence Life Myself Reading
Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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Command Count Importance Man
How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
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Different Food Government Kind Nation Rule
Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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Difficult Potential Realization
In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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Paid Policy Risk War
I am not bad, thank you. But don’t worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
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Death Myself Thankful
Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
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Fall Grave Man Thinking World Yourself
Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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Force Leadership Love Process Strong
How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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Country Food Himself System Variety
For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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Dreams Glory Herself
In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?
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Face Greatness History Hope Love
These people really aim very badly.
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Bad Goal People
Old age is a shipwreck.
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Age Myself Old Perspective
France cannot be France without greatness.
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France Greatness One Liner
Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
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Adversity Bitter Himself Joy Responsibility Seek
It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
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Death Hero Humanity Possible Sacrifice Tolerance

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